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attorney geoffrey berman, who had recused himself from because of his ties to the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani. it never happened. at his contentious hearing before the house judiciary committee earlier this month, whitaker didn't deny discussing the investigation with the white house. >> did you ever have any conversations with anybody about reassigning or firing any personnel including u.s. attorneys with the southern district of new york? >> congresswoman, i sit on top of the department of justice, as you mentioned. >> reporter: but he did say the president never pressured him to interfere with the investigation. >> at no time has the white house asked for nor have i provided any promises or commitments concerning the special counsel's investigation or any other investigation. >> reporter: president trump vehemently denied "the new york times" report. >> did you ask acting attorney general matthew whitaker to change the leadership of the investigation into your former personal attorney michael coalen? >> not at all. i don't know who gave you that, just more fake news. >> jon karl live with
attorney geoffrey berman, who had recused himself from because of his ties to the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani. it never happened. at his contentious hearing before the house judiciary committee earlier this month, whitaker didn't deny discussing the investigation with the white house. >> did you ever have any conversations with anybody about reassigning or firing any personnel including u.s. attorneys with the southern district of new york? >> congresswoman, i sit on top of...
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. >> that's according to giuliani. the part you said according to giuliani, we don't know if that's true. >> maybe not. why not yet? why isn't this happening? nothing in the constitution prevents a president from being indicted. everybody is talking about these doj guidelines. the guidelines from the nixon period and then reaffirmed during clinton. but those guidelines were specific to those presidents' actions during their presidency. now trump is allegedly having committed crimes to get the presidency. so why aren't we at an indictment yet? >> hold on. let me let you answer that question, nixon was also trying to get the presidency, the watergate break-in was during the re-elect. it was in an attempt to get the presidency. >> that's right. the doj manual says that a sitting president can't be indicted but that's kind of like an employees handbook and not really the law. >> exact lply. it's not the law. >> since you've been on the show then mueller has indicted 19 russians for conspiracy, conspiring to throw the elect
. >> that's according to giuliani. the part you said according to giuliani, we don't know if that's true. >> maybe not. why not yet? why isn't this happening? nothing in the constitution prevents a president from being indicted. everybody is talking about these doj guidelines. the guidelines from the nixon period and then reaffirmed during clinton. but those guidelines were specific to those presidents' actions during their presidency. now trump is allegedly having committed crimes...
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other white house officials such as john kelly, from family members, public surrogates such as rudy giuliani at the time i am referencing you were a private citizen, before you were hired so is not covered by executive privilege. >> you are asking me whether i talked with anybody in the president's circle or the white house about my views of the special counsel investigation when i was a prison -- private citizen and not the department of justice, i did not. >> thank you. >> mister acting attorney general, as you mentioned earlier, there are other important matters in the purview of the justice department and within the oversight responsibilities of this committee besides fishing expeditions trying to get the goods on this president in an apparent effort to impeach him. for example, 70,000 americans died from drug overdoses in 2017. i'm old enough to remember in the mid-80s when president ronald reagan and his wife felt compelled to do something about the scourge of drugs in this country, the effort to just say no began and other efforts following that and that is because we had 10,000 death
other white house officials such as john kelly, from family members, public surrogates such as rudy giuliani at the time i am referencing you were a private citizen, before you were hired so is not covered by executive privilege. >> you are asking me whether i talked with anybody in the president's circle or the white house about my views of the special counsel investigation when i was a prison -- private citizen and not the department of justice, i did not. >> thank you. >>...
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he was a form partner of rudy giuliani. and there are solid reasons why berman should not be in charge of this investigation and why trump wanted him to be. >> if i'm not mistaken, i believe the times reporting is slightly erroneous. it didn't come from berman but a senior department of justice ofilt official, which is why he was taken off that case. do you think whitaker was truthful to your colleagues in the house? >> whitaker was, at best, misleading and deceptive. whether he committed purnlry is something we still don't know for sure at this point and the house is considering whether or not that should be referred. but there is cleary an effect of trump's attacks on the southern district, on the fbi, on the department of justice, on the rule of law because it undermines the morale of the fbi, it has an impact when they testify in court andh they interview witnesses. so this kind of pattern and practice of attacking law enforcement is really the kind of reporting that is so powerful from the "times." >> i want to present
he was a form partner of rudy giuliani. and there are solid reasons why berman should not be in charge of this investigation and why trump wanted him to be. >> if i'm not mistaken, i believe the times reporting is slightly erroneous. it didn't come from berman but a senior department of justice ofilt official, which is why he was taken off that case. do you think whitaker was truthful to your colleagues in the house? >> whitaker was, at best, misleading and deceptive. whether he...
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>> it was very clear that both president trump and his lawyer, rudy giuliani, were intimidating michael cohen. so he was -- it came off because of that exactly. his family was in jeopardy. he felt credibly in fear for his family's safety. the fact that we've been able to now get him to come voluntarily is something we're very happy about. this is something that the american people do need to hear in an open setting. >> there was a sort of document put out by elijah cummings' office about the scope and purpose of the hearing. it's included the president's debts and payments relating to payments to influence the 2016 election, the president's compliance with financial disclosure requirements, compliance with tax laws, efforts by the president and his attorney to intimidate mr. cohen and others not to testify. what are you looking forward -- you're going to get a chance to question the man. what are you looking forward to finding out? >> pieces i'm most interested in are these conflict of interest pieces because i think there are sign after sign after sign showing that trump and his allies
>> it was very clear that both president trump and his lawyer, rudy giuliani, were intimidating michael cohen. so he was -- it came off because of that exactly. his family was in jeopardy. he felt credibly in fear for his family's safety. the fact that we've been able to now get him to come voluntarily is something we're very happy about. this is something that the american people do need to hear in an open setting. >> there was a sort of document put out by elijah cummings' office...
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and he's like rudy giuliani says there was imbrsment. by and large there was no actual factual attack. >> and that's what i thought was so troubling is here was their opportunity to say i want to get to the truth. here we are. we know republicans had control for two years. but this is our opportunity to show the american people we care more about the truth than we do about the proximity, the power and money. it is an incredible aphrodisiac. that's what michael cohen said. be better than me. >> and there's the reality of the whole spectacle which is them hammering michael on his conduct and you're like yes, exactly. have you looked at the white house? i felt like they were doing what i do every night on the show like this guy. >> was michael cohen a scum bag only after he ratted on trump? no. and everything about donald trump's organization that weisselberg and con are going to peal back over time is going to look sleezy and nasty and small ball. it's not the tv show image of the "apprentice." it's the real donald trump. the sleez. >>. >>
and he's like rudy giuliani says there was imbrsment. by and large there was no actual factual attack. >> and that's what i thought was so troubling is here was their opportunity to say i want to get to the truth. here we are. we know republicans had control for two years. but this is our opportunity to show the american people we care more about the truth than we do about the proximity, the power and money. it is an incredible aphrodisiac. that's what michael cohen said. be better than...
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collusion is a term that's been developed by the president and rudy giuliani and their handlers. what is dangerous is it's subjective. the bar can be raised. i think we have seen it raised over and over. the operative term is conspiracy. i think if michael cohen's testimony is taken as true by a fact finder, hypothetically a jury, potentially some day congress, then you see several conspiracies that he has implicated the president in. >> finally, you know, michael cohen was under fierce attack by the republicans who were trying to discredit him, representative jordan, the ranking member and others, just kept calling him a liar himself, kept repeating that he was there because he had lied to congress and this was -- this is the context to all of this. cohen kept saying, in the end, i'm owning my mistakes, i apologize, i'm going to prison. how heavy a body blow do you think the republicans trying to discredit him scored against him? >> not very. this is right out of the playbook. this is cooperating witness cross-exam 101. i have seen defense lawyer dozen t. all day long a defense
collusion is a term that's been developed by the president and rudy giuliani and their handlers. what is dangerous is it's subjective. the bar can be raised. i think we have seen it raised over and over. the operative term is conspiracy. i think if michael cohen's testimony is taken as true by a fact finder, hypothetically a jury, potentially some day congress, then you see several conspiracies that he has implicated the president in. >> finally, you know, michael cohen was under fierce...
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attorney jeffrey berman who had recused himself because of his ties to the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani. during a congressional hearing earlier this month, whitaker did not deny discussing the investigation with the white house. >> i will continue the long-standing executive branch practice of not disclosing information that may be subject to executive privilege. >> reporter: but this morning, house democrats examining if whitaker committed perjury when he stated this under oath. >> at no time has the white house asked for, nor have i provided any promises or commitments concerning the special counsel's instig or any other investigation. >> reporter: and last week the senate confirmed william barr as trump's new attorney general. barr also drew backlash for comments he made criticizing the russia investigation. janai, kenneth. >> mona reporting from washington, thank you. >>> senator bernie sanders is quickly filling up his campaign coffers after announcing he's running for the white house again. he raised $4 million within just 12 hours of announcing his campaign yesterday. most of it
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giuliani is hard pressed to say there was no collusion. they have a little more work left to do. >> bill: when is the final confirmation vote for bill barr? >> we expect it to be tomorrow. in that procedural vote yesterday three democrats voted to advance the barr nomination. they were joe manchin, kyrsten sinema and doug jones. rand paul voted against him. he said bill barr was a leading proponent of surveillance and his record is troubling to me. after this confirmation vote we expect barr to be sworn in and the mark whitaker era comes in a close. >> if the president signs this, what can he say? he can say look, i wanted 64 mile expansion of the wall. i have a 55 year. he can portray it as a win because the democrats were offering zip, zero, nothing, even though it's less than what trump said he wanted. anything that happens that solidifies and sements that effort as being taken and underway the president can portray as a win. can always hold out the card of a declaration of a national emergency to get the rest of it built and so forth.
giuliani is hard pressed to say there was no collusion. they have a little more work left to do. >> bill: when is the final confirmation vote for bill barr? >> we expect it to be tomorrow. in that procedural vote yesterday three democrats voted to advance the barr nomination. they were joe manchin, kyrsten sinema and doug jones. rand paul voted against him. he said bill barr was a leading proponent of surveillance and his record is troubling to me. after this confirmation vote we...
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. >> bill: and i'm just trying to get the points in here and rudy giuliani is saying he was trying to protect his own family, including his wife, what's wrong with that? >> lots of viewers were critical of john edwards when he paid hush money. this is almost analogous what the president did was paying hush money to keep something private and away from his wife and it has an impact on the campaign. what's disturbing is people are questioning michael cohen. can you imagine the president of united states is writing checks from his personal bank account and going to the oval office. that's not what you want in this country. my hope is there'll be people even supporters saying it's demeaning to the office of the president, this was wrong and there should be some consequences. >> bill: no regrets about holding this today while the meeting continues with chairman kim, is that correct? >> you can read i've been one of the democrats supportive of the president's diplomacy in north korea and will continue. i think we have to continue the work of oversight. thank you, bill. >> bill: we move thro
. >> bill: and i'm just trying to get the points in here and rudy giuliani is saying he was trying to protect his own family, including his wife, what's wrong with that? >> lots of viewers were critical of john edwards when he paid hush money. this is almost analogous what the president did was paying hush money to keep something private and away from his wife and it has an impact on the campaign. what's disturbing is people are questioning michael cohen. can you imagine the...
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>> i'm trying to remember whether when rudy giuliani hired me if i told him i was heterosexual. this is how silly this has gotten down to. rao is an imminently qualified nominee and they can use this as a platform to play identity politics because it looks like that's how the 2020 democratic nomination chase is going to go. but it is not going to stop her from getting confirmed and she deserves to be confirmed. >> bill: we frame that in light of this comment from the state of the union on tuesday night. watch here. >> president trump: this new era of cooperation can start with finally confirming the more than 300 highly qualified nominees who are still stuck in the senate. the senate has failed to act on these nominations, which is unfair to the nominees and very unfair to our country. now is the time for a bipartisan action. >> bill: andy, is that guilty as charged there and is that chuck schumer? >> you know, bill, i think this is the kind of politics that have been played with judicial nominations going back to the george w. bush administration. each side does it. the democra
>> i'm trying to remember whether when rudy giuliani hired me if i told him i was heterosexual. this is how silly this has gotten down to. rao is an imminently qualified nominee and they can use this as a platform to play identity politics because it looks like that's how the 2020 democratic nomination chase is going to go. but it is not going to stop her from getting confirmed and she deserves to be confirmed. >> bill: we frame that in light of this comment from the state of the...
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giuliani? i would note, this is not covered by executive privilege. because at that time, you are a private citizen. >> congresswoman, thank you for that question. i came to washington, d.c., in october of 2017 to be attorney general sessions' chief of staff. i have the greatest respect, as you know, for general sessions. i am really honored to carry out the role of acting attorney general. >> if i may, that's very nice, but that was not the question i asked. >> as you know, as i mentioned, i am honored to serve as acting attorney general and i'm honored that the president selected me to be the acting attorney general. i can assure this committee that, before appointing me to this position, the president did not ask for it and i did not provide any commitments, promises, with concern to the special counsel of the station or any other investigation. >> that's of the question i asked, sir. i see that my time is about to expire. mr. chairman, i would like to add -- i know that we will have a follow-up deposition -- >> i will allow you to ask the question
giuliani? i would note, this is not covered by executive privilege. because at that time, you are a private citizen. >> congresswoman, thank you for that question. i came to washington, d.c., in october of 2017 to be attorney general sessions' chief of staff. i have the greatest respect, as you know, for general sessions. i am really honored to carry out the role of acting attorney general. >> if i may, that's very nice, but that was not the question i asked. >> as you know,...
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cinematic meeting with kilimnik in this semiseedy cigar bar which is on the top of 666 fifth avenue, rudy giuliani is a regular there, it's like this crazy new york place. this is the place they decide to meet. and the question is, is manafort meeting with kilimnik to regenerate his own personal business in the ukraine where he made so much money where the $15,000 ostrich jacket came from, or is he meeting with kilimnik to try to get the russians to help donald trump win the election? and that is obviously the most legally significant, but it may simply be manafort's greed. >> senator blumenthal, do you buy that, that it could just be greed? >> it could be greed. it could be just the habit of self-enrichment. it could also be that at the end of the day manafort wants a pardon. and there is obviously a reluctance to talk about it, but behind many of these lies on the part of whether it's roger stone or others, ultimately the motive may be to win favor with trump as part of a cover-up and get a pardon. now if you were to pick anyone to try to foist a cover-up on, the last person in the world would b
cinematic meeting with kilimnik in this semiseedy cigar bar which is on the top of 666 fifth avenue, rudy giuliani is a regular there, it's like this crazy new york place. this is the place they decide to meet. and the question is, is manafort meeting with kilimnik to regenerate his own personal business in the ukraine where he made so much money where the $15,000 ostrich jacket came from, or is he meeting with kilimnik to try to get the russians to help donald trump win the election? and that...
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we know how concerned the president is about this, but rudy giuliani told pam i don't think michael cohen is occupying even 10% of the president's attention right now. i think it's got to be a little more than that, don't you? >> yeah. okay. let's just let that ruminate for a while. jeff, this tweet from gaetz, it's a threat. is it legal, is it illegal? >> i just reread the obstruction of justice statute, 18ufc 1512. it could certainly be described as obstruction of justice. however there is a speech and debate clause under the u.s. constitution in which members of congress are gibbon broad range to speak about matters being litigated. i don't think this is going to wind up to be a legal case especially because trump himself has said worse things about cohen and more threatening things. it was the president who tweeted why aren't they investigating cohen's father-in-law. i mean he's the one in charge of the department of justice. gaetz is just a junior member of congress who really doesn't have much authority to do anything. it's much more threatening to have the head of the executive bra
we know how concerned the president is about this, but rudy giuliani told pam i don't think michael cohen is occupying even 10% of the president's attention right now. i think it's got to be a little more than that, don't you? >> yeah. okay. let's just let that ruminate for a while. jeff, this tweet from gaetz, it's a threat. is it legal, is it illegal? >> i just reread the obstruction of justice statute, 18ufc 1512. it could certainly be described as obstruction of justice. however...
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he said that he did not in fact talk about the moscow tower project as late as his own lawyer, rudy giuliani, said he did in 2016. he said rudy is wrong about that. he denied that these tweets that seemed very threatening against michael cohen, his former lawyer who turned on him, were meant to be witness tampering, even though he couldn't say exactly what they were. i said, what were they if not witness tampering? he said everybody has a right to speak out and he was talking things he had heard about his father-in-law. >> rod rosenstein told him that he was not a target. i want to play that and talk to you guys about the significance of that. >> reporter: has rod rosenstein given you any sense over the course of the last year about whether you have any exposure, either in -- or there's any concerns or whether you're a target of the mueller report? >> well, he told the attorneys that i'm not a subject, i'm not a target. >> reporter: did he say that about the sdny investigation too? >> about which? >> reporter: the sdny investigation, because there's two, there's mueller and there's cohen. >>
he said that he did not in fact talk about the moscow tower project as late as his own lawyer, rudy giuliani, said he did in 2016. he said rudy is wrong about that. he denied that these tweets that seemed very threatening against michael cohen, his former lawyer who turned on him, were meant to be witness tampering, even though he couldn't say exactly what they were. i said, what were they if not witness tampering? he said everybody has a right to speak out and he was talking things he had...
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. >> and his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, speaking to "usa today" today in an interview, saying if mueller clears the president, we walk away and say thank you. if it is damaging, then we will respond. and he's been saying they have a response already. barbara mcquade, there is a legal issue here as to what william barr, once he receives this, is required or obligated in any way to do by the regulations that neal katya wrote in 1999 because some are questioning whether or not he even has to turn it over to congress. what's your take on that? >> yes, i think that most of us remember, when we think about these special counsel reports, we're thinking of the ken starr report which was written under the prior version of this law, the independent counsel statute, which has lapsed. since that time, neal and others have drafted these new statutes instead which say the attorney general is to report the fact that robert mueller is done to guess and that's all that is required. at his confirmation hearings mr. barr said words to the effect of, he favors as much transparency as possible consis
. >> and his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, speaking to "usa today" today in an interview, saying if mueller clears the president, we walk away and say thank you. if it is damaging, then we will respond. and he's been saying they have a response already. barbara mcquade, there is a legal issue here as to what william barr, once he receives this, is required or obligated in any way to do by the regulations that neal katya wrote in 1999 because some are questioning whether or not...
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sick now who need help now would not be sick if the epa at the time, and the mayor at the time, mayor giuliani had not told them that the air was safe to breathe when we knew perfectly well that the air was not safe to breathe and these people worked under piles for three months without proper respiratory protection and that was a calamity and we have two separate moral obligations in order to meet them. >> and i would say also the number of cancers are increasing dramatically. a few years ago a fifth of the claims were cancer and now well over a third and growing, and we lost almost 3,000 people on 9/11, but the number who have died since will soon surpass that number and there are 20,000 people in the program and growing because the cancers you can enroll and you don't even know you're sick until much later so this is the responsibility of our country and 18 years is a long time and these families should not have to come back and jerry and i should not have to keep writing this bill and putting it in and fighting for it. >> john feal, i think i've been told that you've gone to 181 funerals o
sick now who need help now would not be sick if the epa at the time, and the mayor at the time, mayor giuliani had not told them that the air was safe to breathe when we knew perfectly well that the air was not safe to breathe and these people worked under piles for three months without proper respiratory protection and that was a calamity and we have two separate moral obligations in order to meet them. >> and i would say also the number of cancers are increasing dramatically. a few...
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giuliani and others might come up, but i would say no. and more importantly for any seasoned criminal defense attorney, much less someone like giuliani, it would be obvious that you would not want to talk to any of those people given who you are about the possibility of a pardon precisely to be wary of this kind of a take on it. so all the other talk of obstruction is very complex of course, it gets into the unitary executive ability, can the president really do something wrong if he's in charge of the executive branch. but this type of communication about the pardon with these folks at that time, to me, is the closest to really making a criminal obstruction case. it could be very dependent on the details of that communication. and i think it converts the president's legal team into witnesses. >> that's a fascinating point that you raise. i want to get your reaction when you heard andrew mccabe, the former acting director of the fbi, say that he thinks it is still possible that donald trump is a russian asset. >> well, i think that he's a
giuliani and others might come up, but i would say no. and more importantly for any seasoned criminal defense attorney, much less someone like giuliani, it would be obvious that you would not want to talk to any of those people given who you are about the possibility of a pardon precisely to be wary of this kind of a take on it. so all the other talk of obstruction is very complex of course, it gets into the unitary executive ability, can the president really do something wrong if he's in...
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giuliani? i would note this is not covered by executive privilege, because at the time you were a private citizen. s. >> congresswoman, thank you for that question. i came to washington, d.c. in october of 2017 to be attorney general sessions' chief of staff. i have the greatest respect, as you you know, for jeff sessions, and i am honored to carry out the role of acting -- >> that's very nice, but that wasn't the question i asked. >> well, as you 2340e, i am -- as i mentioned, honored to serve as acting attorney general, and i'm honored that the president selected me to be the acting attorney general. i can assure this committee before appointing me to this position, the president did not ask for and i did not provide any commitments, promises concerning the special counsel's investigation or any other investigation. >> that's not the question i asked, sir. i see my time is about to expire. mr. chairman, i would like to add -- i know we'll have follow-up investigations. >> i will allow to you
giuliani? i would note this is not covered by executive privilege, because at the time you were a private citizen. s. >> congresswoman, thank you for that question. i came to washington, d.c. in october of 2017 to be attorney general sessions' chief of staff. i have the greatest respect, as you you know, for jeff sessions, and i am honored to carry out the role of acting -- >> that's very nice, but that wasn't the question i asked. >> well, as you 2340e, i am -- as i...
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think it is clear that before any report is released, the white house will be told and, certainly, rudy giuliani, president trump's personal attorney, would get a heads up. and we get some semblance of an idea of what is in it. so, but in terms of leaks, pieces of information coming out of that report, bob mueller has done an extraordinary job of keeping that under wraps. i would not expect that happen. tom: everybody they used is going to vietnam. a large continued going -- contingent going. what do we expect out of vietnam? vietnam.not it is not singapore. guest: it isn't. there are a number of observers who are questioning just what exactly we expect to get out of this second summit. and the really historic consequence of these two leaders meeting, there is still the north korea nuclear threat. is still with us. it is a real question what we are willing to get out of this. i like the idea of david westin as andrew mccabe today after 18 interviews. it is amazing how he is becoming more comfortable with the media as he goes through the gauntlet. guest: it will be interesting trying to figure ou
think it is clear that before any report is released, the white house will be told and, certainly, rudy giuliani, president trump's personal attorney, would get a heads up. and we get some semblance of an idea of what is in it. so, but in terms of leaks, pieces of information coming out of that report, bob mueller has done an extraordinary job of keeping that under wraps. i would not expect that happen. tom: everybody they used is going to vietnam. a large continued going -- contingent going....
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. >> reporter: the president contradicted his own attorney saying rudy giuliani was wrong a little bit when he said trump may have discussed building a tower in moscow as late as november, 2016. >> would have covered up to november, 2016. >> trump argued he was too busy, saying, quote, i was running for president. i was doing really well. the last thing i cared about was building a building. declaring a national emergency on immigration has been on the table for quite some time. there's no guarantee it would actually work. democrats vowed to challenge it in court. some republicans criticized the president saying it would set a dangerous precedent. beyond that, cnn got a glimpse of what he is going to say at the state of the union address. nothing ground breaking, but a vision of a path forward following the government shutdown. boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president in palm beach, florida. >> let's bring in james davis from the university. pleasure to have you james. >> morning, george. >> a lot to talk about. let's start with the developments around the virginia governor. th
. >> reporter: the president contradicted his own attorney saying rudy giuliani was wrong a little bit when he said trump may have discussed building a tower in moscow as late as november, 2016. >> would have covered up to november, 2016. >> trump argued he was too busy, saying, quote, i was running for president. i was doing really well. the last thing i cared about was building a building. declaring a national emergency on immigration has been on the table for quite some...
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rudy giuliani is a character. this rudy giuliani is nothing like the 9/11 rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani has talked too much. you know, we're going back down that line again from roger stone to rudy giuliani. they talk too much and they want to play this out in the court of public opinion. but what's happening for rudy giuliani, he's contradicting things and actually putting the president in jeopardy. i am wondering if the president has now come out and said this about rudy giuliani, which could actually really be bad for the president as the president was dealing with this up until, what, november of 2016, that was when he was president-elect. so the bottom line is i'm wondering when the president is going to sever ties. the president is very cognizant of the optics of all the people that have been in his inner circle that have been fired, and i'm wondering what that is for the president to say bye, rudy. >> can i just say, ana, i'm not 100% sure that he really doesn't like what rudy is doing. i think in some ways rudy throws up chaff into the air for us to chew on, and at
rudy giuliani is a character. this rudy giuliani is nothing like the 9/11 rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani has talked too much. you know, we're going back down that line again from roger stone to rudy giuliani. they talk too much and they want to play this out in the court of public opinion. but what's happening for rudy giuliani, he's contradicting things and actually putting the president in jeopardy. i am wondering if the president has now come out and said this about rudy giuliani, which could...
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in response to the mueller report, giuliani said in the past he might raise executive privilege to object to certain portions of the report. this page needs to come out because it has to do with a secret conversation between the president and one of his advisers. in response to subpoenas, there are various contexts where it could be raised. now, people should understand, executive privilege is narrow. the main decision we have on it is from the richard nixon case in 1974. in that case the supreme court said unanimously yes, executive privilege exists but it's designed to protect national security and military secrets. it is not designed as a general shield for the president against potential criminality. >> what's the thinking behind the justice department counseling against indicting a sitting president? s we had one of your viewers ask, i thought no american was above the law. >> people do not like this pomsy. we've seen clearly from our viewers because it does put the president above the law a little bit. if you look at the actual policy, which it goes back. it's not something new. it
in response to the mueller report, giuliani said in the past he might raise executive privilege to object to certain portions of the report. this page needs to come out because it has to do with a secret conversation between the president and one of his advisers. in response to subpoenas, there are various contexts where it could be raised. now, people should understand, executive privilege is narrow. the main decision we have on it is from the richard nixon case in 1974. in that case the...
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trump -- rudy giuliani waived the privilege. >> i'm not talking about rudy giuliani. i'm talking about you. i don't know who's on those tapes. only you know. there's 100 of them. >> the other one is also subject to ongoing -- >> my point is within a matter of a second, one second, you took no absolutely no calculation of your role as those clients' counselor, the role that plays in privacy and in the role that plays in the solemn vow you took and you just immediately said, if it helps me out in two day in front of tv, absolutely, mr. chairman, you can have that. and i think -- that just goes into what we'll talk about next briefly. we talk about these tax -- these indictments on tax fraud and bank fraud as if they are isolated incidents but they're not isolated incidents of bad judgment. these were intricate elaborate lies that created -- needed to be held with constant -- just constant deceptions of banks, businesses, associates, accountants, potentially your family. you received over 2.4 million in personal loans from taxi medallion company one and those were of loa
trump -- rudy giuliani waived the privilege. >> i'm not talking about rudy giuliani. i'm talking about you. i don't know who's on those tapes. only you know. there's 100 of them. >> the other one is also subject to ongoing -- >> my point is within a matter of a second, one second, you took no absolutely no calculation of your role as those clients' counselor, the role that plays in privacy and in the role that plays in the solemn vow you took and you just immediately said, if...
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. >> rudy giuliani is the tv lawyer. you may recall that in april of the following year aboard air force one, president trump denied any knowledge whatsoever of those payments to stormy daniels, something else the president claims he has no knowledge of, that 2016 trump tower meeting where donald trump jr. and other campaign officials sought dirt on hillary clinton from someone they were told was a russian lawyer. here again is cohen. >> donald trump jr. came into the room and walked behind his father's desk, which in and of itself was unusual. people didn't just walk behind mr. trump's desk to talk to him. i recall don jr. leaning over to his father and speaking in a low voice, which i could clearly hear and saying, the meeting is all set and i remember mr. trump saying, okay, good. let me know. >> for many republicans at the hearing there's a clear line of attack. cohen's tenuous relationship with the truth, his financial troubles and perhaps, perhaps even a little sour grapes. >> mr. cohen, how long did you work in th
. >> rudy giuliani is the tv lawyer. you may recall that in april of the following year aboard air force one, president trump denied any knowledge whatsoever of those payments to stormy daniels, something else the president claims he has no knowledge of, that 2016 trump tower meeting where donald trump jr. and other campaign officials sought dirt on hillary clinton from someone they were told was a russian lawyer. here again is cohen. >> donald trump jr. came into the room and...
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first it was january, later it was the summer, rudy giuliani said it went up all the way through the elections. those are just some of the issues that beg the question about what exactly is within the president's finances that they don't want to share with the rest of the world. >> it's interesting you mention michael cohen. now that he's hearings are starting, who is the one person you want to hear testify the most? >> i got to tell you, michael cohen is at the nexus of the president's professional life, his campaign as well as his business affairs and so he knows a lot about a lot of things. i think that he would be one person that i think all of us are going to ask a lot of questions of. >> lastly, just, by the way, it's your committee that's been infamous for not exactly getting along and quite divided over this whole russia investigation. what are your republican colleagues saying to you about you guys going after the president's finances? >> well, i think that i'm very hopeful that chairman schiff can bring more comedy to the committee -- >> that was a dodge, congressman, what
first it was january, later it was the summer, rudy giuliani said it went up all the way through the elections. those are just some of the issues that beg the question about what exactly is within the president's finances that they don't want to share with the rest of the world. >> it's interesting you mention michael cohen. now that he's hearings are starting, who is the one person you want to hear testify the most? >> i got to tell you, michael cohen is at the nexus of the...
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suggesting that he had done nothing wrong, this was not illegal, something we've heard reiterated by rudy giuliani and the president's legal team. that was the impetus for these calls from trump to whitaker expressing his frustration about the situation in manhattan. fast-forward to today when whitaker is asked about this reporting and he was first asked by representatives -- he was asked whether or not the president lashed out at whitaker about it and he said, no he did not. but then he was asked about representative lieu about it, he said i refer back to my opening statement. his opening statement doesn't have anything to do with it. doesn't reference it at all. it says i never provided any assurances to the white house about the special counsel probe or any other investigation. that wasn't our reporting. then he's asked by val demmings, the representative democrat there again about this issue and then he says, i'm not going to discuss my conversations with the president about the southern district of new york. we saw very different answers depending on who in congress was asking him the questio
suggesting that he had done nothing wrong, this was not illegal, something we've heard reiterated by rudy giuliani and the president's legal team. that was the impetus for these calls from trump to whitaker expressing his frustration about the situation in manhattan. fast-forward to today when whitaker is asked about this reporting and he was first asked by representatives -- he was asked whether or not the president lashed out at whitaker about it and he said, no he did not. but then he was...
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rudy giuliani spins all the time when supposedly offering legal analysis. interesting comments before we let you go by dowd about how trump would react to questioning from the special counsel. >> yeah. it's not great for his client. dowd said he's incapable of telling the truth. dowd tries to play it off to faulty memory but he says the reason i never walked trump into an interview with mueller is he wouldn't remember and he would just make it up. if you don't know but you make something up, that's a lie. that's why they resisted so hard the subpoena and interview. >> you can believe it. thank you very much, ellie. >>> the race for 2020 may have just kicked off at the texas border. president trump and beto o'rourke pushed very different messages just a few hundred feet from each other. >> walls save lives. walls save tremendous numbers of lives. >> we know that walls do not save lives. walls end lives. -i call it my comfortable future plan. -it's our confident forever plan. -welcome to our complete freedom plan. -it's all possible with a cfp professional. â
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does john dowd know something or is this giuliani-like spin? >> wouldn't it be nice if the president's lawyers could make their own prediction. john dowd left the legal team in march of 2018. he it inshoiight into the investigation before he left. bill barr, the man that donald trump wants to be his next attorney general said he wants to make some kind of version of the report public. john dowd did give us some interesting insight into why he was so adamant that donald trump should not sit down for an interview with robert mueller. here is what he said. >> what i was worried about is that he really couldn't do it. he couldn't do it. there is no way he could. we have to script it. i told bob why don't you just let us script it? >> now, in that interview, john dowd goes on to say that when donald trump is unsure, he tends to guess the answers to questions and so that was part of the reason they were so worried about him sitting down with robert mueller is that he may essentially commit perjury on accident. >> to script the president's answers to
does john dowd know something or is this giuliani-like spin? >> wouldn't it be nice if the president's lawyers could make their own prediction. john dowd left the legal team in march of 2018. he it inshoiight into the investigation before he left. bill barr, the man that donald trump wants to be his next attorney general said he wants to make some kind of version of the report public. john dowd did give us some interesting insight into why he was so adamant that donald trump should not...
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one of the things that got the trump administration in court were comments from rudy giuliani and tweets from the president himself saying muslim ban. ban the muslims. muslim ban and then they had to make a legal argument that this isn't a muslim ban. if this goes to court which it likely will and perhaps in very different venues. states suing over it. house and senate democrats suing over it. interest groups like the aclu suing over it. the trump administration will have to argue this is a legitimate national emergency and here the president of the united states is saying, i didn't have to do it, but i am. that could be legally difficult. >> yes, the president's comments came back to haunt the administration in the first go around but ultimately in the third iteration is passed muster. chairman rogers othe political side before we go, looking at the new cnn ssr poll numbers, 64% of republicans support a national emergency to get a wall. 57% of conservative gopers back it. it's not an overwhelming majority but he seems to have the numbers that help him politically. what do you think? >>
one of the things that got the trump administration in court were comments from rudy giuliani and tweets from the president himself saying muslim ban. ban the muslims. muslim ban and then they had to make a legal argument that this isn't a muslim ban. if this goes to court which it likely will and perhaps in very different venues. states suing over it. house and senate democrats suing over it. interest groups like the aclu suing over it. the trump administration will have to argue this is a...
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. >> so this was a coup as rudy giuliani and other supporters claim, then this is the strangest coup because it was briefed according to mccabe to the bipartisan leaders, the gang of eight. listen to mccabe talk about this this morning. >> this was a recommendation from my team. >> did you tell congress? >> i told congress what we had done. >> did anyone object? >> that is the important part here, savannah. no one objected. not on legal grounds and not on constitutional grounds and not based on the facts. >> that would have been the time to object to this investigation. that was an early time. it is interesting to sort of have the perspective of the distance of time. >> the other issue, of course, revelations from this book are these discussions of using the 25th amendment possibly to move this president. you have had public disagreement it seemed between rod rosenstein's accounts of events and how serious they were and andrew mccabe's. >> there is still disagreement. it is not clear whether rosenstein was joking. certainly that seems to be his position. mccabe seems to say that it w
. >> so this was a coup as rudy giuliani and other supporters claim, then this is the strangest coup because it was briefed according to mccabe to the bipartisan leaders, the gang of eight. listen to mccabe talk about this this morning. >> this was a recommendation from my team. >> did you tell congress? >> i told congress what we had done. >> did anyone object? >> that is the important part here, savannah. no one objected. not on legal grounds and not on...
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this is rudy giuliani's former law partner. >> okay, he's rudy giuliani's former law partner, my mistake -- sure, go ahead. >> so i just wonder if it's concerning to you that whitaker said to colleagues at the department of justice according to the "new york times" that his job was to jump on a grenade for the president? >> his job is to run the justice department and he did so. >> sorry, if you could just answer the question. >> whether his job as attorney general is to jump on a grenade for the president? no, that's not his job. >> whether it concerns you that he told that his-to-his colleagues at the department of justice according to the "new york times" reporting. >> we don't know that that was said and if it was that's not his job and that's not the role of the attorney general period. >> another headline is mccabe saying he thinks it's possible that the president -- it's still an open question that the president is a russian asset which was a phrase to come out of the mouth of a former acting director of the fbi. you cover the fbi and the department of justice. is that a view that
this is rudy giuliani's former law partner. >> okay, he's rudy giuliani's former law partner, my mistake -- sure, go ahead. >> so i just wonder if it's concerning to you that whitaker said to colleagues at the department of justice according to the "new york times" that his job was to jump on a grenade for the president? >> his job is to run the justice department and he did so. >> sorry, if you could just answer the question. >> whether his job as...
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we all saw the public statements that the president and rudy giuliani made which were pretty clearly semiveiled threats against cohen's father-in-law. if he was contracted directly, y if there were texts or e-mails sent by the president's attorneys or emissaries we need to see that. what's already been done publicly, even just subtle mentions of the father-in-law is right on the borderline and arguably over the line of witness intimidation. if there's more that will strengthen the case. >> dana, your sources, both democrats and republicans, what is their strategy first to the democrats and then to the republicans in terms of what they hope to get out of michael cohen at the end of three days, so by thursday night. >> let's start with the republicans. they want to poke holes in his credibility which they don't think will be difficult to do. >> don't they want answers also even if it is a republican president? >> that's a legitimate question. some of them, maybe. for the most part they are out to defend the president. everybody's president, but the president many of their supporters wh
we all saw the public statements that the president and rudy giuliani made which were pretty clearly semiveiled threats against cohen's father-in-law. if he was contracted directly, y if there were texts or e-mails sent by the president's attorneys or emissaries we need to see that. what's already been done publicly, even just subtle mentions of the father-in-law is right on the borderline and arguably over the line of witness intimidation. if there's more that will strengthen the case....
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. >> so he can't go out there and do his rudy giuliani and try to get people all confused about when about the actual facts are. so, harry, what is the judge taking into consideration with a potential gag order? >> what she's saying is she's taking into the consideration the rights to a jury trial. not having an untainted jury, and of course stone is trying to make the case he needs it for his defense. she's not going to get reversed if she imposes a gag order just as with manafort. and he's got to now learn and i think he has the virtues of s w stoicism. i think his antics days are overs, because if he resumes about the case she'll impose one on him quickly. and look what happened to manafort after the dpgag order. basically his life has changed in that respect probably forever. >> the judge warned any inconsistencies to his public statement, meaning stone could be introduced as evidence. it's better for mueller really if stone keeps talking. >> yeah. investigators love it when defendants go and blab. and i don't think that any lawyer or any good defense lawyer would want their clie
. >> so he can't go out there and do his rudy giuliani and try to get people all confused about when about the actual facts are. so, harry, what is the judge taking into consideration with a potential gag order? >> what she's saying is she's taking into the consideration the rights to a jury trial. not having an untainted jury, and of course stone is trying to make the case he needs it for his defense. she's not going to get reversed if she imposes a gag order just as with manafort....
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, an office giuliani used to lead. so he knows very well how prosecutors take it when they get essentially the stakes raised as the president's lawyers have done. i think that there is a desire by sdny to run a fine-toothed comb for everything trump related and the chances that you find something are relatively high. >> go ahead, carl. and well, it's a terrific story that "the times" and maggie have done, from two points. one, it's a wide angle lens story in which "the times" has pulled out, pulled back and looked at the landscape of the last couple of years. at one overt and covert suggestion and attempt at obstruction by the president of the united states. and then it leads with this most recent rather astonishing heavy, ham-handed attempt to manipulate again the investigation. i think we need to start looking, though, at well, what is the effect of this in terms of where are we going? because donald trump does not fear impeachment. he has told people, impeachment might work to his favor, actually, because, unless th
, an office giuliani used to lead. so he knows very well how prosecutors take it when they get essentially the stakes raised as the president's lawyers have done. i think that there is a desire by sdny to run a fine-toothed comb for everything trump related and the chances that you find something are relatively high. >> go ahead, carl. and well, it's a terrific story that "the times" and maggie have done, from two points. one, it's a wide angle lens story in which "the...
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weekend leave aside this blockbuster "the new york times" scoop about how he was trying to get rudy giuliani's former law partner who is now the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, to take over this investigation, the hush money payments and basically to make it go away. i mean just leave that aside and just look at what he was tweeting this weekend, where he was saying that the investigators ought to be in prison, that it's a witch hunt, that rod rosenstein is guilty of treason and plotting a coup. i mean this is obstruction in plain sight. this is the kind of stuff that we had to wait for the secret tapes of the white house to come out to find out about richard nixon. donald trump is doing this in plain sight. i mean, i don't know what else we could possibly need to show he is guilty of obstruction of justice. now, to be sure he's not being successful on obstructing justice but neither was richard nixon and nixon was still impeached for it. >> thank you all. i appreciate your time. >>> andrew mccabe said president trump's actions maybe the fbi fear he was a threat to nationa
weekend leave aside this blockbuster "the new york times" scoop about how he was trying to get rudy giuliani's former law partner who is now the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, to take over this investigation, the hush money payments and basically to make it go away. i mean just leave that aside and just look at what he was tweeting this weekend, where he was saying that the investigators ought to be in prison, that it's a witch hunt, that rod rosenstein is guilty...
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giuliani and cohen -- stone have also used those terms as well. but the main point is that we can't go down that road. our government should not operate like a mafia, and we have to do whatever we can to protect michael cohen as well. >> thank you, congressman. i appreciate your time. >> thank you, don. thank you for the opportunity. >>> robert mueller's report could come any day now, but will the american people ever get to see it? now, full coverage that doesn't quit. super stay foundation... from maybelline new york. with full coverage pigments... stays on. stays flawless. up to 24-hour wear. super stay foundation only from maybelline new york. with cinemastream for less buffering, cinemasound for brilliant clarity, and cinemacolor for ultra vivid color. get $200 off select xps13 laptops at dell.com ♪ at dell.com ythen you turn 40 ande everything goes. tell me about it. you know, it's made me think, i'm closer to my retirement days than i am my college days. hm. i'm thinking... will i have enough? should i change something? well, you're askin
giuliani and cohen -- stone have also used those terms as well. but the main point is that we can't go down that road. our government should not operate like a mafia, and we have to do whatever we can to protect michael cohen as well. >> thank you, congressman. i appreciate your time. >> thank you, don. thank you for the opportunity. >>> robert mueller's report could come any day now, but will the american people ever get to see it? now, full coverage that doesn't quit....
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giuliani and cohen -- stone have also used those terms as well. but the main point is that we can't go down that road. our government should not operate like a mafia. we have to do whatever we can to protect michael cohen as well. >> thank you, congressman. i appreciate your time. >> thank you, don. thank you for the opportunity. >>> robert mueller's report could come any day now, but will the american people ever get to see it? got it? got it. it's slippery. nooooo... noooo... nooooo... yeeeesss... quick, the quicker picker upper! bounty picks up messes quicker and is 2x more absorbent than the leading ordinary brand. hey look, i got it. bounty, the quicker picker upper. try my sourdough patty melt combo with fries and a drink for just $4.99. it's the perfect remedy for the uncomfortable things in life... like flying, the dentist ...and guys named ronald. i have my reasons. try my $4.99 sourdough patty melt combo today. comes with 100% beef, grilled onions, and two types of melty cheese on toasted sourdough, plus fries and a drink. it's comfort f
giuliani and cohen -- stone have also used those terms as well. but the main point is that we can't go down that road. our government should not operate like a mafia. we have to do whatever we can to protect michael cohen as well. >> thank you, congressman. i appreciate your time. >> thank you, don. thank you for the opportunity. >>> robert mueller's report could come any day now, but will the american people ever get to see it? got it? got it. it's slippery. nooooo......
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testimony by what he thought were perceived threats by the president and by the president's attorney rudy giuliani. do you think that's going to affect his testimony? >> i don't know. you can't send him out there if you're his lawyer unless he's really ready to go. they made some threats that i think were over the line against his family, his father-in-law. but if i'm his lawyer i don't let him step out in front of the world with all those cameras unless he's really ready to go. >> thank you, gentlemen. >> thanks, don. >> by the way, i couldn't remember. secretary of energy. see? thank you, guys. have a good night. good to see you. >>> will the american people see the long-awaited mueller report? rod rosenstein may have given us a clue today. that's next. i can't believe it. that we just hit the motherlode of soft-serve ice cream? i got cones, anybody wants one! oh, yeah! get ya some! no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. ed! ed! we struck sprinkles! [cheers] believe it. geico could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. geico c
testimony by what he thought were perceived threats by the president and by the president's attorney rudy giuliani. do you think that's going to affect his testimony? >> i don't know. you can't send him out there if you're his lawyer unless he's really ready to go. they made some threats that i think were over the line against his family, his father-in-law. but if i'm his lawyer i don't let him step out in front of the world with all those cameras unless he's really ready to go. >>...
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testimony by what he thought were perceived threats by the president and by the president's attorney rudy giuliani. do you think that's going to affect his testimony? >> i don't know. you can't send him out there if you're his lawyer unless he's really ready to go. they made some threats that i think were over the line against his family, his father-in-law. but if i'm his lawyer i don't let him step out in front of the world with all those cameras unless he's really ready to go. >> thank you, gentlemen. >> thanks, don. >> by the way, i couldn't remember. secretary of energy. see? thank you, guys. have a good night. good to see you. will the american people see the long-awaited mueller report? rod rosenstein may have given us a clue today. that's next. ♪ tear up ticket. find the cat. [ meowing ] mittens! make it rain. [ cheering ] [ singing opera ] change the music. ♪ when i move, you move beep. beep. use the rocket. [ sputtering ] if only everything in life listened to you like your new a-class. hey mercedes. [mercedes-benz voice assistant] how can i help you? change color. make it cooler. pla
testimony by what he thought were perceived threats by the president and by the president's attorney rudy giuliani. do you think that's going to affect his testimony? >> i don't know. you can't send him out there if you're his lawyer unless he's really ready to go. they made some threats that i think were over the line against his family, his father-in-law. but if i'm his lawyer i don't let him step out in front of the world with all those cameras unless he's really ready to go. >>...
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this is from, let's see, rudy giuliani. and this is a quote. he says, "i don't think michael cohen is occupying even 10% of his attention right now," meaning the president. but a senior white house official says the president is expected to stay up all night overnight in hanoi to watch the testimony. how worried do you think he is? >> i think he's very worried. he has to be. he has to be. i mean, apart from the legal implications, you know, politically, this is potentially hugely damaging to him. >> yeah. although he likes to say, you know, when he met with kim jong-un, he talks about their relationship and, you know, how they're, you know, buddies or what have you. the last meeting -- nothing really tangible came out of that meeting, although he likes to say so. >> right. >> do you think he has learned this time around that he's got to get something out of it? >> i don't know. i mean, he's much more into photo-op form and not much on substance. >> pomp and circumstance. >> and i wish that either then or if this is a do-over, pose a question to
this is from, let's see, rudy giuliani. and this is a quote. he says, "i don't think michael cohen is occupying even 10% of his attention right now," meaning the president. but a senior white house official says the president is expected to stay up all night overnight in hanoi to watch the testimony. how worried do you think he is? >> i think he's very worried. he has to be. he has to be. i mean, apart from the legal implications, you know, politically, this is potentially...